Simple Wisdom for a Complex Life

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Scott Smith shares practical wisdom gained from 19 years of podcasting and coaching. Through personal stories and observations, he reveals how understanding life's fundamentals leads to greater success and satisfaction. Featured Story: Scott reveals his simple but powerful podcast preparation technique: leaning back and asking "What do they need?" This approach has guided over 5,000 episodes of authentic, valuable content. Key Takeaways: Life is long enough when lived intentionally True wisdom comes from experience, not just information Moderation works for most things (70/30 rule) Some experiences deserve excess and full enjoyment Reading good books directly correlates with income Turning off distractions creates space for growth Memorable Quotes: "Your job is simple. Acquire wisdom." "Life goes quickly, but not if you're bored." "Everything you experience is filtered through what you hold as the truth." Scott's Three-Step Approach: 1. Stand in another's shoes to understand their perspective 2. Practice moderation in most areas (70% rule) 3. Invest in continuous learning through reading and experience Connect With Scott: Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Email: [email protected] Visit: https://www.faceyourpassion.com/ Learn More: https://www.9minuteclaritycode.com/ Visit: https://www.perfectweekplanner.com/ Learn More: https://www.dailyawarenessdiary.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. Service Now puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can
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0:28.5	slash AI for people. So I've got a pretty good life. I'm actually sitting here doing the podcast
0:34.3	right now doing exactly what I shouldn't be doing and that is I'm uh well
0:37.6	I'm paying attention to you I'm recording video I'm doing the audio I'm talking with the big radio voice
0:41.2	I'm known to have and I have my Slack channel open and these are my clients and and they're
0:46.2	slacking me back and forth and they know I'm recording is it going to be is it going to be. Tell me what the podcast is going to be next week. It's so cool to see that.
0:55.3	But would you leave me alone?
0:56.9	I got stuff to do.
1:00.2	I do not mean that.
1:01.3	Man, I tell you what, good interruptions the kind you like are awesome.
1:04.6	Isn't that true?
1:05.2	We all complain about being interrupted all the time,
1:06.9	and yet we get interrupted all the time in really good ways.
1:09.1	I have a rule of life. You should take this rule as well. When something important to me interrupts me like my family and my friend,
1:14.3	somebody needs me, boom. I love that interruption and everything else is gone just like that.
1:19.1	It is the daily boost from Motivation to Move.com for 19 years now and started this whole thing
1:24.3	back in 2004. I actually incorporated my business in 2004.
1:31.1	And so what the hell am I going to do with this thing? It's motivation to move. Let's go motivate people to move. Let's go do that. Yeah, I had no idea. It's just something I felt called to do.
1:35.2	And I jumped in with both feet and it was deep. It was really deep. A lot of folks are doing stuff.
1:41.9	I mean, the influencer thing and all the stuff is going on these days. And a lot of older people that want to maybe do this kind of work for retirement,
1:47.0	it's a really good thing to do. And the thing they always say to me is, well, how do you start?
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